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Emerging traditions : towards a postcolonial stylistics of black South African fiction in English
- Title
- Emerging traditions : towards a postcolonial stylistics of black South African fiction in English / Vicki Briault Manus.
- Author
- Briault Manus, Vicki, 1952-
- Publication
- Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books, c2011.
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- Description
- xl, 308 p.; 24 cm.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- Contents
- A period of optimism (1795-1910) : literacy as the path to equality. Case-study one : translation and transposition : The wrath of the ancestors and Tales from Southern Africa by A.C. Jordan -- Disillusionment sets in (1910-1948) : black Englishmen and urban natives : first signs of indigenization. Case-study two : a detailed stylistic analysis of Sol Plaatje's Mhudi -- Under control (1948-1960) : tsotsis, tough-talking journalists from the urban ghetto and the post-creole continuum. Case-study three : Can Themba, the poet-laureate of the township -- Stylistic analysis of two stories from Drum magazine : The urchin (1951) and Baby come duze (1973) -- Dislocation (1960-1976) : colored or creole? : writing "between two fires" in the sixties. Case-study four : The park and other stories by James Matthews -- Deadlock (1976-1990) : the old is dying and the new cannot be born. Case-study five : stylistic analysis of Oggzee by Don Mattera -- Breakthrough (1990 and after) : multiple identities and "emerging traditions." Case-study six : Welcome to our Hillbrow by Phaswane Mpe.
- Call Number
- Sc E 12-388
- ISBN
- 9780739148075 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 9780739166956 (electronic)
- 0739148079 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0739166956 (electronic)
- LCCN
- 2011006117
- OCLC
- 698328044
- Author
- Briault Manus, Vicki, 1952-
- Title
- Emerging traditions : towards a postcolonial stylistics of black South African fiction in English / Vicki Briault Manus.
- Imprint
- Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books, c2011.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 12-388